Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:47:12 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 14:58:21, odell hall wrote: >I don't think Ed Was making any "Macho" statements at all, He was simply >reporting the excellent results against what he Perceived to be Deepblue jr. I >think anyone would have done the same thing, It was not his fault that deepblue >Team misrepresnts a "fake" as the Real thing. Ed doesn't have EsP or Psychic >abilities, he can only go by what he sees presented. Had ferret beat what you >thought was deepblue, would you not comment about it??? I see nothing wrong >personally in a person who is in "business" To use positive publicity, as long >as this publicity is based on Fact. Ed Reported the Facts Accurately as far as >he knew them. I haven't followed the thing with Ed, so I wasn't referring to Ed specifically, I was referring to the general attitude of the whole microcomputer crowd, including people in here who don't program but have their favorites, etc. Regarding DB Jr in Paderborn, the thing was running over the net on a machine out in the lobby, and I believe that what happened is that a few people were taking laptops out there. I was invited to do this by one of the other programmers, which was a very nice offer, and I declined. The idea didn't appeal to me at the time, and I wasn't able to express at the time why I didn't want to mess with the thing. It is still difficult for me to say. I think that I would rather play their best version, or at least a version that I can describe accurately after the game, rather than play some computer museum dinky-ass lobby version. It would have been fun to play against it, but I don't think it would have proven or disproven anything if my program had beaten it. I'm sure it could have. If I could play it from here I would. But at the time I was having mental health problems due to playing in a big tournament, and I just wanted to email my family then leave to go get food and beer. bruce
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